* Defined as Medicaid and Department of Health and Human Services. General “health care” numbers from Pew poll used.

Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to all types of spending cuts. Outside of the State department and NASA, which account for less than 2% of all federal government spending, at least five out of six Americans do not want to see the federal government cut spending in any other area.

More than five out of six Americans are opposed to cutting 98% of the federal budget. Most don’t want to cut the remaining 2%, either. Keep that in mind whenever you hear politicians calling for spending cuts, and polls claiming that voters want spending cuts.

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